More Than A Game (At the Orkney Rugby Club)Words & Music: Andy Cant. All rights reserved.

I started as a youngster, when I was just a boyIn the mud at weekends, on the fields of PickaquoyWe learned how to tackle and we learned how to fallWe learned how to sidestep and pass the oval ball

It’s there we did our training, it’s there that we got fitIt’s there that when selected, you pulled on the first team kitIt’s there that we rubbed shoulders with the heroes of our youthIt’s there you learnt life’s lessons, and were told the simple truth

​That you would run and score a try forYou would ruck and maul and die forFor as players, we all knowThis is more than a game

More than a game, it’s the club you play forMore than a game that friendship’s made forMore than a game, ….oh yeahIt’s more than a game

It’s there we learnt commitment, how to give and gain respectDiscipline and teamwork, the support you could expectIt’s there we learnt that win or loose only sportsmanship’s allowedIt’s there we learnt the values of which rugby can be proud

It’s there we learnt to have a laugh, and dance away the nightCommiserate and celebrate, and go out on the skiteIt’s there we lost our innocence beneath a setting sunSome got a life, some found a wife, and boy we had some fun

And you would run and score a try forYou would ruck and maul and die forFor as players we all knowThis is more than a game

More than a game, it’s the club you play forMore than a game, that friendship’s made forMore than a game, ….oh yeahIt’s more than a game

So what do I Hear……………Fiftieth Year……………………Let’s drink a beer…………….Let’s hear you cheer…………

What do I Hear………………..It’s the Orkney Rugby ClubFiftieth Year …………………… At the Orkney Rugby ClubLet’s drink a Beer……………..At the Orkney Rugby ClubLet’s hear you Cheer ………. For the Orkney Rugby Club

What do I Hear………………..It’s the Orkney Rugby ClubFiftieth Year …………………… At the Orkney Rugby ClubLet’s drink a Beer……………..At the Orkney Rugby ClubLet’s hear you Cheer ………. For the Orkney Rugby ClubHip Hip Hip Hip HipYes it’s more than a game

More than a game, it’s the club you play forMore than a game, that friendship’s made forMore than a game, ….oh yeahIt’s more than a game

Fifty years have passed now and the club has come of ageOld boys, getting older, no longer centre stageStanding on the touchline, telling tales of days gone byThe day that we beat Caithness, and they scored the winning try

Look into the future, do you see a peedie boyIn the mud at weekends, on the fields of PickaquoyHe’ll learn how to tackle and he’ll learn how to fallAnd he’ll carry all our hopes and dreams when he picks up the ball

And he’ll run and score a try forAnd he’ll ruck and maul and die forFor as players we all knowThis is more than a game

More than a game, it’s the club you play forMore than a game, that friendship’s made forMore than a game, ….oh yeahIt’s more than a game

Hawgood then, fields the ball deep in his own

twenty two, passes out to Logie, he’s got

Spence and Learmonth in support, McGinn takes

it on, out to Wood, nice inside pass to Hutch,

he’s got Bain on his shoulder, Keith Hutchison

this time steps inside and offloads to Copland,

he’s supported by by Anderton and Girvan. The

ball pops out to Rodney Spence he chips

through and it’s a kind bounce for Anderson,

Sangster’s up there with him as is Cusiter and

McGill. They form a maul now as Findlater and

Rushbrook drive on with Flett and Stoff piling in

up the touchline. Now the balls out with Hall,

along the line to Watson, McLellan, Dearness, and out to Burns

Down in the tackle but Drever and McCartney

drive over and its Thomson out to Baird

who’s got a bit of room, McKinlay bursts into the line,

where did he come from! And it’s out to Alan

Brown who scores in the corner. It’s been a

wonderful 50 years and this has been more than

a game for Orkney Rugby Club.

More than a game, it’s the club you play forMore than a game, that friendship’s made forMore than a game, ….oh yeahIt’s more than a game

What do I Hear………………..It’s the Orkney Rugby ClubFiftieth Year …………………… At the Orkney Rugby ClubLet’s drink a Beer……………..At the Orkney Rugby ClubLet’s hear you Cheer ………. For the Orkney Rugby Club

What do I Hear………………..Its the Orkney Rugby ClubFiftieth Year …………………… At the Orkney Rugby ClubLet’s drink a Beer……………..At the Orkney Rugby ClubLet’s hear you Cheer ………. For the Orkney Rugby ClubHip Hip Hip Hip HipYes it’s more than a game

More than a game, it’s the club you play forMore than a game, that friendship’s made forMore than a game, ….oh yeahIt’s more than a game

Instrumental fill slowing down to last refrain of..

And I would run and score a try forI would ruck and maul and die forFor as players we all knowIt’s been more than a game